i am wondering if it would be a good idea to place a lock on this topic seeing as it is now deprecated ie: old news... possibly in future - the same day as a new release is out we lock the old one down. yes / no / what???

You know, I've never been fond of hard locks. If someone really does have something to say, they can't say it. Some forums use something called a soft lock. You don't actually lock the topic, you just say "soft lock", and that means that no one should post in the topic unless they have something really important to say. Let's try that here.